I mean, it was better than the Snipe one at lease? My issue with this is the only thing I really wanted to see was how Gentoku becomes Night Rogue. It's implied that Stark does something to him offscreen but it's never explained.

The guy that played Genotkus friend also played Raias friend that got eaten in Ryuki.

It's definitely better than KR Snipe. Snipe was terrible, whereas this is genuinely decent. The fact that it's basically the length of a full episode helps a lot; Snipe episodes were rather rushed for how little was going on.

Still, the usual point stands: this really should have been in the series proper. Prequel series in this fashion just aren't working.